Please Remember Us

Today we will meet with the national staff to remember F.  F was a girl from England who came to work and do research with our team here in M-ville.  A year ago tomorrow she was found dead in her room in the guest house in Kbl...apparently from carbon monoxide poisoning.  It shook us foreigners (she was 21 or 22, beautiful, spunky, full of life) but it seemed to affect the local staff very deeply as well.  They had a ceremony to remember her and since have continued to talk about her.

As is customary in this culture, on the one year anniversary of a death, you have a remembrance ceremony/meal.  We asked the local staff if they wanted to do something to remember her and they jumped on the chance.  They immediately started planning a program and large meal of fatty soup (ironic seeing as F was a vegetarian...). We have gotten messages from other team members as well as F's parents that will be read during the program.  The local staff have set it up so that the whole program can be taped and will then be sent to her parents in her remembrance (this was the local staff's idea and I thought it was beautiful).

Please be remembering us today and in this time. The testimonies that have been written about F's life by her parents and other team members that can't be with us today are beautiful and very Christ centered...they explain fully that F is in heaven and how she got there.  There are VERY few opportunities in this place to be so bold and clear with these descriptions, but this is one of them.  So, we are really asking the Father to use this time and event.

Our cleaning lady told my friend the other day that she had a dream about F after she passed away.  In the dream, F who was in heaven, came to her and said, "come with me".  The cleaning lady told her she couldn't and again F said "it is okay, it is a good place, you will be safe, come with me." She said that she thinks about that time a lot...

So, please be lifting up today and what comes out of it, as well as our local staff.  Pry that the Father would use the words that are spoken today to draw them to Himself in real ways.  Thanks